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Version: 26.3

sixteenth, sixteenths

Ordinal Number​

Selects the sixteenth chunk element.

Examples:

put the sixteenth item of waitTimes into minimumAcceptableTime
put the sixteenth char of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" --> P

Accessing Chunks Using ordinal-to-last​

(Added in SenseTalk 2.13)

You can access chunks counting back from the end of a string, list, etc. using ordinal-to-last syntax.

Example:

put the sixteenth-to-last char of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" --> K

Fraction​

Example:

set nutSize to seven sixteenths of an inch